He was such a slick snake
Oh right, it’s all Obama’s fault.
Right right right. Race was in no way an issue in the US until Obama came along. Those centuries of race-based chattel slavery? A mirage! A myth! A story told by the devil!
Obama did all the dividing and Trump has just been trying to stitch it back together. The man is a saint.
I mean, before Obama came along no one cared about the President’s race, right? Then he had to get all uppity about it.
Before Obama came along nobody cared about anybody’s race. It was a race-blind paradise here!
It’s an attempt at a re-run of St George vs the dragon: St Donald vs the barackodile maybe?. St Donald vs the Obamagator? Except they somehow don’t have the right ring to them.
Maybe we should go with St Obama vs the Trumposaur. Seems a better fit..
Just when you thought they couldn’t get more stupid. This is the stupidest thing I’ve seen in quite a while.
Trump: Hold my Diet Coke.
Simply being black is divisive, obviously.
We see it again and again: There is no bottom. Just stupidity layered on stupidity all the way down.
With lashings of sadism sauce.
I think she may be right that ‘without Obama Trump wouldn’t have happened’ – the backlash against a Black president was shockingly savage (at least shocking to me).
The initial backlash against Obama was the Tea Party (remember them?)
They’ve since been eclipsed by Trump.
The podcast The Rest is History has an episode about George Wallace, who the presenter Sandbrook sees as a forerunner to Trump. He too was all about race – though he wasn’t so blatant in his message when campaigning in the North.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XugwohThlyI
“In 1968 Norman Mailer was writing about Wallace he said ‘America might not be ready for George Wallace, but it might be waiting for a Super Wallace’.”
This was just before the last American election.
Megyn Kelly can pretend that Barack Obama was the US politican “who started to inject race when no one had been doing it” in US politics.
Any student of US history knows things were very different:
Vice President Calvin Coolidge, “Whose Country Is This?” “Good Housekeeping” magazine, February 1921.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/09/26/american-immigration-century-racism/
And Coolidge’s bigoted filth was mainstream opinion in the US of the time – as indeed, some in the Trump movement would like to make such drivel mainstream opinion again.